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Those bones are not my child / Toni Cade Bambara.

by Bambara, Toni Cade.

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Vintage Books, 2000.

Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Fiction.

Missing children -- Fiction.

Murder victims -- Fiction.

Murder -- Fiction.

Georgia -- Fiction.

Atlanta (Ga.) -- Fiction.

9780679774082 (trade pbk.)

1st Vintage Books ed.

676 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

In Atlanta, a black woman searches for her missing son with help from volunteers of the city's committee to stop child murders. Suspected is a Ku Klux Klan porn ring. A look at the lot of the black working class in urban America.

At the time of her death in 1995, acclaimed author, activist and educator Bambara (Gorilla, My Love; The Salt Eaters) had spent 12 years working on what her friend and editor Toni Morrison called a "magnum opus." Bambara lived in Atlanta during the two years [1979-1981] in which more than 40 children, mostly black boys under 15, were abducted and gruesomely murdered. Bambara's novel was published posthumously.

Domestic fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Mystery fiction.

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